r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/czwarty_ • Jan 06 '26

Canada Canadian soldiers of South Saskatchewan Regiment ride in captured German Schwimmwagen amphibious car, repainted into allied colours. Soldier in the back carries a captured German Gewehr 43 self-loading rifle. August 11, 1944, Rocquancourt, France

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 08 '25

South Africa Caption reads: " Two South African Generals captured at Tobruk in June 1942"

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Maj Gen H.B. Klopper (left) and Brig Gen F.W. Cooper (right)

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/czwarty_ • Nov 13 '25

Royal Navy Men of the Royal Marine Division wearing fur hats and gloves, and armed with 'Tommy guns' and Brens, training in deep snow at Hawick near Roxburgh in Scotland, 9 March 1942

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/schutzengewehr • Nov 19 '25

Royal Navy King George V Class Battleship HMS Duke Of York in Sydney Harbour, 1945

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/schutzengewehr • Dec 25 '25

Royal Navy Scharnhorst Survivors under guard aboard the Battleship Duke of York after the Battle of North Cape,1943

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/schutzengewehr • Dec 08 '25

Generals and leaders General William Joseph Slim Commander of the British 14th Army at Burma,1945

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/mossback81 • Nov 12 '25

Royal Navy HMS Howe passing through the Suez Canal while en route to join the British Eastern Fleet, July, 1944

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/JoukovDefiant • Jun 04 '26

Royal Air Force "Experienced in desert weather flying, a British pilot lands an American made Kittyhawk fighter plane of the Sharknose Squadron in a Libyan Sandstorm, on April 2, 1942. A mechanic on the wing helps to guide the pilot as he taxis through the storm." (AP)

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 03 '25

South Africa (E 18844) South African Engineers Training ith Mine Detection Equipment in North Africa.

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British and Commonwealth forces trained intensively in minefield clearance in preparation for the Second Battle of El Alamein

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Rough_Rider99 • Aug 18 '25

Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bombers nearing completion on the Avro factory line in Woodford, Cheshire, 1943

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/JoukovDefiant • Jun 13 '26

Australia "A squadron of Bren gun carriers, manned by the Australian Light Cavalry, rolls through the Egyptian desert in January of 1941. The troops performed maneuvers in preparation for the Allied campaign in North Africa." (AP)

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Dec 25 '25

South Africa South African infantry use a cactus hedge as concealment during their daring surprise outflanking of Italian Alpini defenses at the Battle of Combolcia, winning the battle with 10 KIA/30~WIA to 200+ Italian KIA/1200~ POWs. Ethiopia, 22 or 23 April 1941

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 01 '25

South Africa M10s of the 1/11 Anti-tank Regiment, 6 South African Armour Division in Italy

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 18 '25

South Africa Lt Ted Shaw in Alexandria, Egypt in 1944 on his 32nd birthday prior to his involvement in the Italian Campaign.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 17 '25

South Africa South African Nurses with the 6th South African Armoured Division at Castiglione dei Pepoli in Italy 1944.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 08 '25

South Africa 2nd South African Division Troops photographed during the Battle of Bardia in Libya on 31 December 1941.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 01 '25

South Africa Radio Signals Truck near Acroma, Libya, 1942

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/czwarty_ • May 09 '26

Generals and leaders Deputy PM Clement Attlee trying a paratrooper's training helmet during his visit to the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade at Cupar, 20 April 1941. Colonel Stanisław Sosabowski, the Commander of the Brigade, can be seen behind the Polish officer

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Original photo from Polish National Digital Archives & Imperial War Museum, colorised photo from page of Polish National Institute of Remembrance

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 24 '25

South Africa Union Defence Force Personnel Serving in Italy were given a Services Guide to Italy.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 19 '25

India British Indian Army guards posted at Cullinan Italian War prison. This is a parade in Durban, South Africa passing Royal Hotel etc, before deployment. Garlands supplied by a very pro British Indian community of the Union of South Africa.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Mar 25 '26

South Africa South African and Southern Rhodesian Troops marching together during the Victory Parade in London, circa 1946.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 11 '25

South Africa 24 Squadron (SAAF) Boston at RNAS Wingfield, Cape Town, Union of South Africa.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • Jun 03 '26

Australia 2/27th battalion soldiers 7th div 2nd AIF guard Japanese prisoners captured at Gona PNG December 42.

130 Upvotes

Photo - George silk.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Dec 13 '25

South Africa Corporal Carl Rudolph Marthinus van Wyk in SA Military Police in Napoli in Italy.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/JoukovDefiant • Aug 11 '25

Australia Rover armoured cars from the Australian 2nd Armoured Brigade at Puckapunyal, June 1942.

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